For sixteen years, Benjamin Maier has created stunning handmade works in his northern Michigan studio employing both wood and soda fired kilns. His pieces are utilitarian – plates, vases, cups, teapots – as well as artistic opportunities to play with surface tensions, negative spaces, and architectural shapes. His Leland gallery has itself become a destination for summer visitors, but it is his own the time apart in the studio creating and crafting that gives “meaning and rhythm” to Benjamin Maier’s pottery and his life.